Bashar al-Assad, responsible for 202,000 civilian deaths, now plays video games in Moscow luxury apartment

Bashar al-Assad, the man who killed 202,000 civilians including 23,000 children, gassed 1,400 people to death in a single attack, and ran a torture network so sadistic that prisoners were kept in cells with rotting corpses, is now spending his days in a Moscow luxury apartment playing video games, Die Zeit reports
Russia granted the 60-year-old former Syrian president asylum on 'humanitarian grounds,' because it's important to be nice to people who built concentration camps where detainees were beaten, electrocuted, raped, and starved, who dropped barrel bombs on neighborhoods for fun, who used chemical weapons like they were going out of style, and whose intelligence agencies perfected torture techniques that would scare medieval inquisitors. — Read the rest
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